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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe they should compromise and send 5 bullet points.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 11h

It’s actually hard work being the stupidest Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 12h

Isn't he just eccentric?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 12h

RIP

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12h

Okay I trust Marc Lamont Hill on this

D’Angelo Reportedly Dead At 51

Further details on D’Angelo's death remain unclear after news of the iconic singer's passing became public on Tuesday.

www.hotnewhiphop.com

Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile, at the UN…
www.reuters.com/world/us-thr...

US threatens visa restrictions, sanctions against UN members that back IMO emissions plan

The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping.

www.reuters.com

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 14h

Is there any mesh in cville/albemarle?

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 17h

Rubbing alcohol works

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Blaze @blazeberaht.bsky.social · 19h

“They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security,” Schulman says. “They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

I can’t believe the first rule of fantasy sneaking really does work IRL.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19h

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

They were all scraped up today. There will be a 3rd installation coming.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

For the crime of caring about humans more than vehicles

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

(Even) if they came to a complete stop

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

this particular one would bottom out some stock sedans if they came to a complete stop.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I hope they land on simply closing the road to all through traffic and leaving it as two sets of parking lots with separate entrances.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

It lasted 10 days. RIP IX speed bump.

Curious what the 3rd attempt will look like.

IX parking lot with controversial speed bump removed

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t even like the happy indigenous peoples day alternative because it sounds highly condescending, imagine being Irish in Ireland and having some smug politician tell u that cromwell’s birthday was now “happy Irish lad eve”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Leonardo DiCaprio Day

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 2d

I remember like 40 years ago Sylvester Stallone saying ”I had to fight the seven headed hydra of success” and yet there is no digital record of it. So now there is.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 2d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who was providing direct care to COVID patients from the start of the pandemic, but couldn’t get tested for almost 8 months, this was particularly infuriating

5. KENT arrived at UVA just before the COVID pandemic. Just after he started, he
left for a vacation with his family to the Caribbean for two weeks. When he returned, and once
there were finally limited tests for COVID available, KENT dictated that his family and close friends be tested routinely for the virus, coupling the results of the testing with fake medical records so as to hide the identity of those being tested, and, instead of using the limited tests on staff and physicians who were still treating patients through COVID and the patients who were arriving at the hospital with COVID-type symptoms, KENT prioritized testing on the University's football
players.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe you can find a coupon for 20% off democracy

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Peter Griesar @griesar.bsky.social · 4d

Wouldn’t those be conspiracy hypotheses?

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